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MLB Power Rankings (8/31)
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The Chicago Cubs are the best team in baseball at present. We know this. We've known it for most of the season, save one bad and one awful stretch. They have one of the most dangerous offenses in the league, have built a back-end of the bullpen that -- once Pedro Strop and Hector Rondon return from injury -- will be dominant and their starting rotation has performed as the best in baseball throughout the year.
On the latter point, the rotation has had a ton of help from an unheralded portion of this team.